As we continue to dig into the global governance movement, very serendipitously one of our followers shared an interview that I had not yet seen, with Chrystia Freeland and George Soros from a number of years ago. As you might expect, the content was eye opening and a little bit unsettling.
Chrystia Freeland holds the position of Deputy Prime Minister in Canada but is also on the Board of Trustees on the World Economic Forum. George Soros, founder of Soros Fund Management and Open Society Foundations, is also a member of the World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum and the United Nations signed a partnership agreement in 2019. Read our post on the United Nations Family of Agencies here.
When one of Canada’s top elected officials is deeply involved with global governance leaders and organizations, it raises very serious questions about conflicts of interest and it questions where her loyalties lie. What does this mean for the future of Canada? What is certain, is that the long dismissed notion of a New World Order being nothing more than a crazy conspiracy theory, is that it is anything but.
We present below samplings of her contributions spanning decades. She presents herself as a key player in the New World Order, where the US is no longer a superpower, where a “rules based” international order is the governance, where she maintains close relationships with many of the key global billionaires and leaders, and where she takes aggressive control of Canadians who challenge overreaching government mandates. It is clear that she has the support of government funded major media outlets and is gifted with biased reporting in support of all of her globalization efforts.
Chrystia Freeland 2007
Columbia University World Leaders Forum
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“Previously, Freeland served as deputy editor in London. Other notable positions Freeland has held at the Financial Times include editor of electronic services, editor of the Financial Times’ weekend edition, editor of FT.com, UK news editor, Moscow bureau chief and Eastern Europe correspondent. Freeland began her career working as a stringer in the Ukraine, writing for the Financial Times, The Washington Post and The Economist.
Freeland’s expertise lies in the history and culture of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She received her bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard University, and earned a master of studies degree from St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
She has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.”
The date of this interview is unverified at this time, but it was done while Freeland worked for the Financial Times prior to 2013.
I think this would be the time because you really need to bring China into the creation of a New World Order; financial world order. They are, kind of, reluctant members of the IMF. They play along but they don't make much of a contribution because it's not their institution. Their share is not commensurate. Their voting rights are not commensurate to their weight. So I think we need a New World Order that China has to be part of the process of creating it. And they have to buy into it. They have to own it. The same way that the United States owns the Washington Concensus; the current order. And I think this would be a more stable one where you would have a more coordinated policies. I think the makings of it are already there because the G20 in agreeing to peer reviews, effectively is moving in that direction.
George Soros
On September 4, 2013, Freeland gave a TED talk on the topic of “Then rise of the global super-rich”.
She closed her presentation by saying, “Today, we are living through an era of economic transformation comparable in its scale and its scope to the Industrial Revolution. To be sure that this new economy benefits us all and not just the plutocrats, we need to embark on an era of comparably ambitious social and political change.
We need a new, new deal.”
In 2014 Crystia Freeland addressed a rally in Toronto in support of the Ukraine. From her speech:
“That is a violation of the post 1991 order. It is a violation, crucially, of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum (see p 167) according to who’s terms, Ukraine, in unprecedented act for a state capable of possessing nuclear weapons, gave up its weapons to be part of a free and peaceful world order. …. This is now a fight that has tremendous significance for the whole world. And anyone in the world who believes in democracy, who believes that we need to have a rule of law international order, must stand now for Ukraine. This is the most important fight in the whole world and we have to make sure that all of us, all of our elected representatives, and all of our governments know it, and stand on the right side.”
In this interview from 2015, Freeland and Soros discuss the Ukraine, Russia, Putin and the future of Europe.
In what was billed as a major speech on Canada’s foreign policy priorities, Freeland sketched out the challenges the country faces today — climate change, Daesh extremists, Russian aggression — and the prospect that the United States may no longer play the active role it has in the past on the world stage.
Speaking in the Commons, she acknowledged the dramatic changes unfolding in Washington under U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pulled out of a global climate change pact, assailed member nations in the NATO alliance for not paying their fair share and talked up protectionist trade barriers.
While Freeland called the United States the “indispensable nation” in the postwar world order, she suggested that those times may be coming to an end.
“The fact that our friend and ally has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership, puts into sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course. For Canada that course must be the renewal, indeed the strengthening, of the postwar multilateral order.”
For Canada, that means more money for the military to better equip it to deal with global threats, she said.
“We’re basically preparing for a post-American world, which is pretty astonishing . . . a world where the United States is no longer the global leader.
“How do you now deal with an American that no longer has bipartisan consensus, no longer wants to bear the cost of leadership, nor wants to be basically a moral leader at all.”
Canada is not the first to raise the prospect of Washington exiting the world stage. German Chancellor Angela Merkel left a G7 summit meeting that included Trump with the pointed declaration that saying that Europe “really must take our fate into our own hands.”
Instead, she underscored the need for the global co-operation, stressing that no one nation can go it alone to confront today’s challenges.
For Canada, that means “robustly” supporting what Freeland called the rules-based international order and institutions such as the G7, NATO and the UN.
“We will put Canada at the forefront of this global effort.”
She said Canada has a “huge interest in an international order based on rules.
Chrystia Freeland - Globe and Mail August 12, 2017
As a journalist, she was uniquely able to turn Russia’s emerging oligarchs into sources. Later, she emerged as a darling of the Davos set who built enduring friendships with multinational business titans, even as she gained fame writing semi-critically of their world.
And while acknowledging many Canadians’ skepticism about what positive international coverage of Mr. Trudeau’s government is actually worth, she described Canada as “one of the cleanest dirty shirts in the world right now” – which was to say that, while imperfect, we have leverage stemming from a reputation deservedly better than that of most other countries.
A recurring theme was that this should be Canada’s moment, and hers, to step up for open borders, free trade, the protection of vulnerable populations and other things that can’t be taken for granted in the era of Donald Trump, Brexit and nationalist governmentsrolling back civil liberties in Eastern Europe or Turkey.
Ian Bremmer, the high-profile global-risk consultant who heads the Manhattan-based Eurasia Group and has been friends with Ms. Freeland since they were both 20-somethings in Kiev, said he thinks it’s time for her to advance “a Canada doctrine – a new way of thinking about the world.” Fareed Zakaria, on whose CNN show she has frequently appeared as a journalist and politician, expressed hope that her background would help her advocate for a “rules-based global system deterring or responding to acts of aggression like the Russian incursion in Ukraine.” Former prime minister Paul Martin called it “critical” for Canada to play a “leading role” as the U.S. turns inward. A former senior official in Barack Obama’s administration, who got to know her when she was trade minister, assessed that “she punches way above her weight representing a country of 35 million,” and can thus play an outsized role in global fora.
Those voices are all in her ear now – not to mention the likes of her close friend George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who has become the bogeyman for right-wing nationalists across the Western world.
If everything goes just right, maybe Ms. Freeland – at times mistaken for being a critic of globalization, but in fact one of its most ardent defenders – will be able to strike a blow for open borders by finding ways to modernize the continental trade pact.
Most 20-year-old Harvard undergrads would not have leaped at the opportunity to go on an exchange program to Kiev while it was still under Soviet rule. But because she did, in 1989, she wound up working as a translator for Western journalists, placing herself on a path – amid finishing her Harvard degree, and a year as a Rhodes Scholar in Slavic Studies – to freelance from Ukraine and Russia as the Iron Curtain came crashing down.
There was another reason Ms. Freeland could easily have been hardened. While her daughter was based in Moscow, Halyna Chomiak went to Kiev, and wound up helping write Ukraine’s new constitution. As rewarding as that experience was, at times, it also exposed her to rampant corruption, and for her final years – which she spent with Ms. Freeland and her family, in London and New York, after falling ill – left her somewhat soured on the country in whose potential she had spent so much of her life believing.
“I totally don’t want to be sanguine, I totally don’t want to be complacent. Right now, I feel we are in a pretty great place on the global chessboard, and I think we may exceed our own very modestly Canadian expectations for ourselves.”
But it is easy to see why she thinks we currently have an unusual amount of global leverage. Alongside fawning foreign-press coverage of Mr. Trudeau are international polls showing Canada as the most reputable of countries. And there are the very important people, with whom she’s in regular contact, offering positive reinforcement – from Mr. Soros, who she says has “very great hopes for Canada,” to someone like the EU’s Cecilia Malmstrom, who told me Europeans have “a natural weak spot” for anyone presently representing Canada because they’re “very impressed by the Trudeau government.”
Then she pivoted to arguing that a trade deal would be a service to the rest of the world, by helping bring structure to dealings with a country that will be a massive power regardless: “If we care about a rules-based global economic order, which is largely open to trade and getting more open, then it is essential that China is a part of that order.” (This was before the North Korea situation escalated, which might have further fed this argument.)
When she stunned her media friends by entering in politics, Ms. Freeland had a pair of book deals. One was for a sort of authorized biography of George Soros, the other an economics tome co-written with Larry Summers.
When she stunned her media friends by entering in politics, Ms. Freeland had a pair of book deals. One was for a sort of authorized biography of George Soros, the other an economics tome co-written with Larry Summers.
February 18, 2022, Crystia Freeland, Canadian Minister of Finance, in an unprecedented use of self appointed government power, announced that the government would be freezing the bank accounts of those who took part in peaceful protest with the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
On Monday, Canada.....Cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act to restore public order. Information is now being shared by law enforcement with Canada's financial institutions. Financial service providers have already taken action based on that information.
The emergency measures we put in place are being used. They are having an impact. And they will have a growing impact in the days to come.
Since Monday's announcement, I've spoken directly with the heads of our major banks, and with the director of FINTRAC My Cabinet colleagues and I are meeting regularly - very regularly - including with the Commissioner of the RCMP, to discuss next steps. Our absolute priority is ending these illegal blockades and occupation.
It gives me no pleasure to impose any of these measures. In fact, we do so with great sorrow. But do not doubt our determination to act to defend our democracy, to defend our economy, and to restore peace, order and good government.
So let me repeat what I said on Monday. If your trucks are being used in these protests, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended. The consequences are real and they will bite. It is time for you to go home.
And let me also be clear that we will have zero tolerance for the establishment of new blockades or occupations. We now have the tools to follow the money. We can see what is happening and what is being planned in real time. And we are absolutely determined that this must end now and for good.Chrystia Freeland
It is becoming more and more apparent that the WEF, established in 1971 along with other organizations such as the Trilateral Commission, founded in 1973 and the Bilderberg Group, established in 1954 are aiming to be supranational organizations that are answerable to and/or controlled by their members, not to any democratically elected government of a nation. It is important that Canada, as well as any democratic nation, should any still exist, continue to send representatives to the meetings of these organizations in order to monitor them from within so that we, the people can know in detail what they are up to. As Sun Tzu said in, The Art of War, Know yourself and know your enemy. It is foolish to withdraw completely from such organizations for in doing so we lose the ability to prepare to resist them. The injunction to, Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer, is also a crucial tactic in dealing with our enemies in these troubulous (my word) times.
The more I read and understand the important issues of the world, the more I realize the importance of an organization like the WEF. The world needs to be prepared for the drastic changes that are taking place on the planet at an alarming rate. I have been very vocal over the past few years to defend the future of my children. Media organizations have tainted messages that influence many. My strong will & voice to support truth & a better future for our children has been deceived. It’s time to contribute! Thank You